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14/04/2012
Reporting from the world's highest battlefield - is Siachen worth dying for?
21/04/2012
What do you say to a suicide bomber? Also, life in volatile Kabul for a journalist.
28/04/2012
A Charles Taylor perspective from Nigeria, Rwanda and Kenya.
05/05/2012
Bin Laden's letters are released but what do his missives mean?
12/05/2012
Maoist hotline? Why the Hindi service is being used as messenger by the Indian insurgents
19/05/2012
D-I-Y Dictator - what attributes and quirks would you add to our bucket of batty despots?
26/05/2012
How Viagra is fast becoming a lucrative black market trade in Kabul
02/06/2012
Racism, corruption, and football hooliganism - can Ukraine's image get any worse?
09/06/2012
Love in the office? What to do when you work with your spouse in the newsroom
16/06/2012
Russia's conspiracy cookies and does Putin really control the wind and rain?
23/06/2012
We take you behind the scenes of Aung San Suu Kyi's visit to the fifth floor
30/06/2012
How a search for genocide survivors led to the start of the Great Lakes radio service
07/07/2012
Overcoming detention and torture in Tajikistan - a World Service reporter tells his story
14/07/2012
A reporter's diary from four days of covering flash floods in the Russian town of Krymsk
21/07/2012
Syrians reporting Syria - the despair of watching your hometown slide into chaos
28/07/2012
As athletes defy gravity, do sporting politics bring us back to earth? Let the Games begin
04/08/2012
An Urdu Service journalist forced into hiding - the perils of reporting Balochistan
11/08/2012
A new constitution, parliament and President by 20 August - can Somalia do it?
18/08/2012
The BBC's Iranian reporter in Israel on the paradoxes of living with the so-called 'enemy'
25/08/2012
On the ground in Assam - a despatch from one of India's most under-reported conflicts
01/09/2012
Translating the Paralympics Games - the challenges of reporting disability in 27 languages
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Reporting Beslan: two journalists remember the most dramatic experience of their careers
15/09/2012
The secret lives of Pakistan's ISI wives - a satirical take on their catty shenanigans
22/09/2012
How do reporters in the field handle - or even escape - their government minders?
29/09/2012
What's behind the words? The pitfalls and perils of translating world leaders.
06/10/2012
Perfecting the art of arguing - how can you pack a bigger punch in a Presidential debate?
13/10/2012
Malala on the BBC and the duty of care dilemma: how far can journalists protect a source?
20/10/2012
The fall of Gaddafi: a Libyan journalist gives an insider's view on how the BBC covered it
27/10/2012
Reporting Lebanon: a day shift in Beirut and a lifetime of conflict in your country
03/11/2012
Reporting Rakhine's unrest: tough challenges for BBC Burmese and neighbouring Bengali
10/11/2012
Shut out of the Party: Covering Beijing's big political Congress without a visa